The Shackled Mind of the Jehovah's Witness: Why They Surrender Their Lives to the Watchtower Organization

By Mr Raymond Christopher Faircloth

Generally, Jehovah's Witnesses (JWs) are very pleasant to meet as they call at your home or stand by their literature advertising carts on high streets of cities and major towns. Furthermore, if you should decide to attend one of their meetings you will receive a very warm welcome. However, although, because of certain JW teachings the Churches do not consider them to be Christians, there are other reasons for people to be wary about getting involved with JWs. This is because all individual Jehovah's Witnesses are directed and under the control by a very powerful organization, namely the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society with its Governing Body and which decides what JWs must believe and the way they must act in various circumstances. For instance, a major well known doctrine is that of JWs refusing to receive blood transfusions in cases of medical emergency as well as the same refusal for their children. In fact, if such a tragedy occurs the individual JW will be monitored by certain Watchtower "elders" so that the individual complies with the Watchtower's policy. If they do not comply they are likely to be disfellowshipped and then be shunned by other JWs including their JW family members. This disfellowshipping is usually the result of an individual's being brought before a very secretive three-man court called a judicial committee where the accused person is not allowed to have any personal witnesses or even to bring or take notes. Furthermore, there is currently a sweeping under the carpet of the details of the Watchtower's general failure to report to the relevant secular authorities the many cases of paedophile activity by current JWs, including some elders. Because of the misapplication of a certain Bible text the victims of such paedophile unwanted attention are disbelieved by the bodies of elders, often then become disillusioned with the religion and so cease to be associated with the Organization. The final result for them is that they also are then shunned by JW family members and so-called-friends. All of this is very well documented and especially so after the Australian Royal Commission investigated this issue and found the Watchtower Society to have seriously failed these victims and leaving them in dire circumstances.So major questions here are: Should any organization have such power over its membership? Should the individual JW allow the Watchtower to act in such an authoritarian way over their interests, especially when such authoritarianism is not for the purpose of benefitting the average JW but only to build up the Watchtower's finances and property portfolio and its further control over JWs. This book looks at the rather unsavoury basic history of the Watchtower Society and shows that quite a number of its policies imposed upon its members to not actually have a true Bible basis and so leading JWs to do things that they would never naturally and ethically do.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1700464582
• ISBN13: 9781700464583
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.7" x 6.0"